Blue Badge Holders

[Guest]

I also found this:

'Orlando police officers will accept your out-of-state or foreign disabled parking permit, as long as it is prominently displayed in the windshield of your car when you are parked in the designated public handicapped parking spots. Temporary handicapped parking permits are not available so it is important to bring your permit from home to be displayed in your car.'

from orlandoinfo the official website of the Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau.

The application for a Florida disabled parking permit requires a Florida ID or drivers licence number to be attached to the permit, hsmv.state.fl.us how could a UK visitor supply those?

[Guest]

Like jax100 I was also 'advised' by a law enforcement officer that my fathers badge wasn't suitable and I would need to swap it. That was just when he was about to write me a ticket.

I did this on OBT. All I was asked for was my fathers passport and our address while in the USA, And off course 15 dollars, and I got a temporary permit.

I am not about to start quoting websites to a guy with a gun.

[keith&carol]

We've been going for many years with DD's blue badge and never had a problem. We spent a lot of time on one trip talking to the officer in charge of tourist matters and he was adamant that a UK badge was fine.
What strikes me is that both posters who were told to get a temp permit were about to get a ticket - just another way of getting the money out of you perhaps?
Carol

[Guest]

Originally Posted by djhago

I am not about to start quoting websites to a guy with a gun.

See more...

Quite agree! However it is not fair if tourists are being fined after taking advice from the official tourist agencies who are supposed to advise them correctly in the first place.

[DIBBadmin]

This thread has been automatically closed as it has not been posted on in 365 days.